Re: [xsl] Handling Tree Fragments

[andrew welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

Use the node-set extension function for your processor - or if it
supports exslt common then use that for the extra portability.

Other than that you could use function-available and a choose-when to
choose the correct node-set extension for the main big players, but
that's a bit tiresome.

The other way is to use document('') to return the stylesheet itself eg:

<xsl:variable name="RTF">
  some constructed nodes
</xsl:variable>

and:

 <xsl:apply-templates select="document('')//xsl:variable[@name = RTF]"/>




On 9/26/05, Gustave Stresen-Reuter <tedmasterweb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if someone can point out how to use tree fragments as
> node sets in XSLT 1.0. Some processors (Saxon) seem to handle tree
> fragments without any additional work but others (Sablotron and
> libxslt) don't seem to like them very much.
>
> I've read the documentation on exslt.org and tried to implement the
> conversion of tree fragments to node sets using their documentation,
> but I just cannot get it to work (complains about not being able to
> find the imported file).
>
> Ideally, I'd like to avoid using extensions altogether, but I realize
> that that may be impossible.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Ted Stresen-Reuter